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Rõugu (Rõuk)
1) One of the stakes in the back of a farm cart holding the sides in place; 2) Hay or corn stacked on a triangular or A-shaped rack, or the rack itself. Given its immediate neighbors, Kubu, Vihu, etc., probably 2), but it is not without the realms of possibility that during the muddy 1840s the same wood may have served for both, such as a present-day USB key can be adroitly used to keep a window ajar.
Rukkilille (Rukkilill)
Cornflower (lit. rye flower), bachelor’s button, bluebottle... Centaurea cyanus, National flower of Estonia. Once considered a weed in cornfields where the latter was once a generic term for any field containing corn, rye, wheat, etc.
Rõngasjärv (0)
Ring lake, due to its not quite circular shape with a not quite circular island in the middle. Name officialised in 2023 despite numerous votes for naming it after Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater, who – legend has it – used to skate around it, or for whom the ring was dug… Rõngas, incidentally, seems to be a 5000-year-old loan from Germanic. No street, just a lake.
